Saturday, October 17, 2015

Crossover Covers: The Sky Masters

In an earlier post, I covered the first novel in Bill Craig's series featuring adventurer Michael "Hardluck" Hannigan. In the second novel, The Sky Masters, Hannigan
and his friend Gregor Shotsky (who first met each other aboard a
steamer called the African
Queen)
throw in their lot with Abigail Grayson, who like her deceased
father, Sir Edmond Grayson, the Earl of Graystoke, is a British
Intelligence agent. The three rendezvous at a café in Casablanca
called the Blue Parrot, which is owned by an obese man named Ferrari. The
African
Queen is
from C. S. Forester’s novel of the same name. Abigail and her
father are probably related to the Duke of Greystoke. The Blue Parrot
and its owner Signor Ferrari are from the classic film Casablanca.

2 comments:

I feel obligated to point out that Grayson is the name of Mr. Spock's immediate human family, and that he counted Sherlock Holmes among his more distant ancestors. Sir Edmund Grayson might just prove to be the link there.